Wade Deacon High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Widnes, Halton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.33 miles
Published by Halton Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wade Deacon High School is a secondary school in Widnes, Halton for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 29 November 2022. Halton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Wade Deacon High School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 1.33 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Year 7 place for 2026 lived 1.33 miles away, about the same distance as in 2025 and further than in 2022.
- The 2026 Year 7 entry had 393 first-choice applications for 343 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer, the highest of 7 Halton secondary schools.
- For Year 7 in 2026, 341 offers went to first-choice families, and 52 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place.
- 62% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25, highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 nearest secondary schools in Halton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Halton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Birchfield Road, Widnes, WA8 7TD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Halton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,658 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 29 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils at Wade Deacon High School are completely committed to the ‘Wade Deacon Way’.”
- “They talk about it with passion.”
- “Pupils fully live out the school’s values to respect themselves, to be the best that they can be and to believe in themselves.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 62% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 54 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 393 first-preference applications, 343 offers in total, 341 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Halton.
- Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ormiston Chadwick Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- The Heath School 3.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic and Church of England Academy 3.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sandymoor Ormiston Academy 4.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy 4.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published